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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Many of the barmaids at the Folies Bergère also served as prostitutes. Standing behind the oranges, the champagne and a bottle of Bass ale, the woman appears just as much a commodity as these other things. But she doesn't accept this: she is coldly aloof from her objectification. (5/n)
A young barmaid behind the bar at the famous French nightclub Folies-Bergère is staring forward in a bored, introspective way.  Behind her is a mirror which reflects the lively scene.  At the top left you see the green shoes of a trapeze artists.  More importantly, at right you see the back of the barmaid, and see that she is face to a man who leans close and seems to be requesting something.

This is Manet's famous painting "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bar_at_the_Folies-Berg%C3%A8re
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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view! But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible! (1/n)
A young barmaid behind the bar at the famous French nightclub Folies-Bergère is staring forward in a bored, introspective way.  Behind her is a mirror which reflects the lively scene.  At the top left you see the green shoes of a trapeze artists.  More importantly, at right you see the back of the barmaid, and see that she is face to a man who leans close and seems to be requesting something.

This is Manet's famous painting "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bar_at_the_Folies-Berg%C3%A8re
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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This diagram shows how the perspective works in Manet's famous painting Un bar aux Folies Bergère. We are viewing the woman at an angle, and while the man is outside our field of view, his reflection can be seen. Astounding! But it's not just a technical feat. (3/n)
A diagram showing, from above, a woman behind a rectangular table and in front of a mirror.  Lines emanating from the "viewpoint" show what we see in Manet's painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère.   We see the woman, but not the man directly in front of her, because the viewpoint is far to the right.  In the reflection, we see both the woman and the man.

This is a computer-generated diagram by Malcolm Park, created with the assistance of Darren McKimm:

https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/manet_bar/bar_diagram.html
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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The trickery allowed Manet to make a deep point. You think the barmaid is looking at you. The other customer thinks he's looking at him. That is her job. She is literally SPLIT. In fact she's not looking at anyone. She is completely detached - perhaps bored, perhaps introspective. (4/n)
A young barmaid behind the bar at the famous French nightclub Folies-Bergère is staring forward in a bored, introspective way.  Behind her is a mirror which reflects the lively scene.  At the top left you see the green shoes of a trapeze artists.  More importantly, at right you see the back of the barmaid, and see that she is face to a man who leans close and seems to be requesting something.

This is Manet's famous painting "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bar_at_the_Folies-Berg%C3%A8re
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Americans picked Trump II, and their biggest objection is high prices. Hungary chose Orban, and their eventual big objection was corruption. Erdogan and Modi won multiple terms. Brazilians about to go Bolsonaro again. Not always free and fair, but yeah, millions want it. Wouldn’t work otherwise.
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Vetoknox @vetoknox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My favourites are: "Why would you say that?" "The fuck are you talking about?" "Are you being serious right now?" "Are you fucking kidding me?" "The fuck did you just say?" It's effective cuz you act as a surrogate authority. Bigots are notoriously submissive to the whims of a loud mouth. Also👇
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Who The F*** Starts A Conversation Like That?
ALT: Who The F*** Starts A Conversation Like That?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
*whispers* electorates across the Western world make very similar decisions because they’re governed by similar philosophies efforts to identify the “worst” work to occlude this fact.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
It’s a little … odd we’re getting all of these reconciliation pieces at the current nadir of popularity of the far right at least in the US.
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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026
GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb
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Gondor Flame
ALT: Gondor Flame
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Dani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026
FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
It should not be the case that higher education requires a six figure capital investment, that’s bullshit not kids getting higher education.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
We don’t have to pivot to teenage kids being a bad investment if we acknowledge we shouldn’t regard people through an ROI lens.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Thing is the whole thing is premised on the idea a child should need a six figure loan to keep going to school rather than educating people being a public benefit.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Take care!
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buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Found a Link To the vid: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLau...
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Ostentatious Plainness: Copley's portrait of the Mifflins
YouTube video by Smarthistory
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
I worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thanks Gavin Newsom!!!
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Kiki Smith, Singing Siren, 2003 #womensart
Photo of a black sculpture resembling a bird with a human head perched on a rock, all against a white background
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buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Interested to hear your thoughts on the work & the analysis.
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buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Found a YT link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLau...
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Ostentatious Plainness: Copley's portrait of the Mifflins
YouTube video by Smarthistory
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buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
? I’m not using a student account, I mainly just exit out the tabs. I’ll try to find the video somewhere else and post the link to it. If you can access the page, but not the video, then there should be a transcript. I’ll see what I can do.
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buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reminded me of this very good art history video on the subject. This phenomenon is as old as the US itself, even more so: www.khanacademy.org/humanities/a...
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Client Challenge
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
tangentially related
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
René Magritte at work in his living room in 1964
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
“California voters ended affirmative action in college admissions in a 1997 ballot measure.” This is why anyone who insisted the case against affirmative action aimed at Harvard etc would end this particular racist tact was always either naive or dishonest. apnews.com/article/ucla...
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Justice Department finds UCLA law school illegally used race in admissions
The Justice Department found Thursday that the law school at the University of California, Los Angeles, illegally considered race in admissions.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Momma Sciggles @sciggles.com · 30/09/2026
A lot of people assume FA is profitable. If that were the case we wouldn't have needed a GFM when Neer passed to keep it out of probate. It's been two years. The funds were used. FA is struggling financially. And I am 🌟s t r e s s e d🌟 I'm scared to ask for help, I feel like no matter how much-
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If I did not want to be blamed for the state of things, I simply would not have spent a century smashing, assassinating and pillaging my way across the globe in the single minded pursuit of the anticommunist goals of my religious fanatic leadership class.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Like I'm fucking sorry you know what makes it much harder to reform your government? If all the money and infrastructure gets given to a small group of hand picked bastards by a global anticommunist regime that *will* kick the fuck out of you if you ever look at socialism.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/09/2026
If Tennessee executes Christa Pike next week, she'd be the first woman executed by the state in more than 200 years — for a crime she committed when she was 18 nearly three decades ago. Governor Lee must spare her life before it's too late.
truthout.org
Tennessee Is Days Away From Executing a Sexual Assault Victim
Christa Pike’s lethal injection is booked for September 30. She may be the first woman Tennessee executes in 200 years.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Yeah and that’s why the coffee being iced and iced coffee being seen as a more feminine drink preferred by younger people kind of explains people acting as if it’s unheard of and out of line.
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buzzerbetsi.bsky.social @buzzerbetsi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
FWIW, the limits for artists in my, very commercial and illustration focused, college was, “don’t decapitate a living chicken in front of people, that don’t know it was going to happen; also, clean after yourself and don’t make it someone else’s chore.” You will be okay.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are systematically and consciously destroying the natural world So that a tiny elite can become ever richer There WILL be a reckoning www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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WIRED @wired.com · 23/09/2026
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course. www.wired.com/story/emma-w...
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She’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have Kids
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
“Since 1973, 27 gangs or subgroups have been identified through lawsuits & reports compiled by the department’s independent oversight bodies. The gangs have operated out of patrol stations & inside the county’s jails, giving themselves names like the “Banditos,” “Regulators,” and “Lynwood Vikings.”
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this isn't conjecture. This is the EXACT reason why one of the quickest ways to shut down a fash with a camera is to start shouting: "this video is brought to you by SquareSpace!" INSTANT demonitization. Because the streaming/social platforms already protect their advertisers more than the state.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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Pear Bear @pearshapedbear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey y’all, we had a couple more kind donations and now we’re 1/10th there, but only have a week left I don’t have a safety net, no one to swoop in and nowhere to go if I lose my housing. All I can do is ask for help and hope for a miracle. Thank you for your time, PearBear gofund.me/8b605cd39
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
“On Tuesday, department chair Danielle Clealand told faculty in the Social and Cultural Analysis Department that the provost’s office rejected all women’s and gender studies courses from counting toward UT’s core, according to an email reviewed by the Statesman.”
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UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 28/06/2026
this is actually a good reminder that you should delete the tracking nonsense off of any url that you share online. just delete everything after the ? (including the question mark) and share like you usually would
a screenshot of a youtube url showing the actual url as everything before the ? and everything after as “tracking nonsense”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wilber’s attorney: “Wilber has a bullet lodged near his spine and is losing feeling on the left side of his body.” #AbolishICE @DoorDash
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 19/09/2025
And to make it a little clearer: the kinds of power arrangements that enable sprightly and seemingly eternal customer service are...authoritarian. A democratic or egalitarian shop will not have workers who are so servile and so ever-pleasing. Consumers are not treated as full citizens or adults.
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 19/09/2025
This is so well put. People treat institutions like retailers. They think the can vent or boycott or demand changes that don't involve any personal commitment from themselves. And they think if they change their mind, or realize it was just a dumb phase, that institutions will simply adapt to them.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
enjoyed making this one youtu.be/zGYmIwM4T90
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Smart Answers to Stupid Comments About Slavery
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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